Jessica’s Law for California Sex Offenders
California Court’s Stance on Sex Offenders In 2006, 70 percent of California voters approved The Sexual Predator Punishment and Control Acts, also known as Jessica’s Law. In fact, 5,926,800 of Californias approximately 8 million voters approved the legislation. The law was authored by Republican Senator George Runner and Republican State Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, husband and […]
Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board Packaging Law Appeals
Pennsylvania’s New Packaging It has been an eventful start to 2015 for officials at Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board. Recently the LCB was involved in a bit of a debate over the meaning of an antiquated packaging law. A Pennsylvania statute written during the post-Prohibition era placed some interesting restrictions on beer distributors. The statute permitted […]
Linda Carty Appeals Conviction for Murder of Johanna Rodriguez
Linda Carty Appeal in Texas In 2001 a British national was convicted for the murder of Johanna Rodriguez and the abduction of her four-day-old son. A man named Christopher Robinson, a star witness for the prosecution, testified that he saw the murder take place and identified a British woman as the murdered. The woman, Linda […]
Rodney Reed Stays Death Penalty in Texas Execution for Murder of Stacey Stites
Rodney Reed Gets A Stay of Execution in Texas Death Penalty Case Rodney Reed has been a Texas death row inmate since his trial for the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. Stites was the 19-year-old fiancée of Officer Jimmy Fennell. During his trial, the state argued that Reed had raped and murdered the 19-year-old, and […]
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Trial Case: Boston Marathon
Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev Try to Change Venue From Boston April 15, 2013 is a date that will never fade from the memory of a Bostonian. The day began as a celebration of strength, speed, and determination, and without warning became a day of pain, injury, and sorrow. Two pressure cooker bombs exploded near the […]
Adnan Syed Appeals Judgment and Conviction
Adnan Syed’s Appellate Case Serial has quickly become one of the most popular and well-known podcasts in existence. The podcast focuses on a step-by-step and real time examination by one reporter of a 1998 cold case. The subjects of the podcast, Adnan Syed, and his deceased ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, were typical Baltimore teenagers until […]
AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Law Suit Over Labeling
The Case Against AstraZeneca The London-based, global pharmaceutical known as AstraZeneca is the world’s seventh-largest pharmaceutical company. The company was quoted at a worth of around 54.8 billion pounds back in August. AstraZeneca produces pharmaceuticals that deal with everything from cancer to respiratory disorders. While the company has produced drugs that are life-saving and life-changing […]
Conshohocken company alleges that the Liquor Control Board forced them to close up shop and take a loss of about $81 million
Free Wine Is Not Free Throughout the past few years Pennsylvania has seen about one hundred wine-dispensing kiosks around the state. The program was stopped a short time ago and the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has been sitting in the hot seat ever since. The machines as it turns out, stopped appearing across our state […]
Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson: Securities Fraud Appeal
Todd Newman and Anthony Chiasson: Securities Fraud Appeal The subject matter of a New York lawsuit is being referred to as one of the most significant developments in insider trading law in a decade. Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for Manhattan, recently filed a petition in federal appeals court to rehear a Second Circuit Court […]
Supreme Court Stops Death Sentence of Mark Christeson
When Attorneys Are Late The United States Supreme Court has made an unusual and important decision in the area of capital punishment. In January of 2015, SCOTUS intervened in a lower court’s decision to reverse a death sentence for one inmate. SCOTUS’s involvements in death penalty decisions has been few and far between and has […]